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shopman|ˈʃɒpmən|
[f. shop n. + man n.]
1. The owner of a shop. Now rare.
1591in W. M. Williams Ann. Founders' Co. (1867) 74 Leaden Waits ar and have been used time out of mynd by all Shoppmen and Sellers of smaller Wares. 1860Ruskin Unto this Last iv. §76 note, He [the consumer] pays, probably, an intermediate ship-owner, velvet merchant, and shopman. 1888Meredith Stave of Roving Tim vi, The shopman piles a heap While I perhaps am fasting.
2. An assistant in a shop.
1758Johnson Idler No. 15 ⁋2 My wife, though she could be of as much use as a shopman to me, if she would put her hand to it, is now only in my way. 1828Ann. Reg. 370/2 William Noble, shopman with Mr. Rymer, Portsburgh, knew the prisoner Burke. 1892[W. H. White] Mark Rutherford's Deliv. (ed. 5) 175 A shopman was at the counter.
Comb.1826Miss Mitford Village II. 193 Home I returned,..laden..with huge packages,..papered and pack⁓threaded in shopmanlike style.
3. A man employed in a railway workshop.
1926Times 8 Mar. 9/4 He was glad to be able to state that the case of the railway shopmen had been advanced. 1960Listener 18 Aug. 250/1 They were trainmen, shopmen, telegraph operators, and so on, all highly specialized in their respective callings. |